Everton are unbeaten and seventh, and their owners are exploring a sale less than two years after buying the club
The Friedkin Group has brought in Moelis & Company to look at selling a controlling stake in Everton, and David Moyes says he learned about it on Friday morning like everyone else.
Oct 10, 2026
Everton have not lost a Premier League game this season. They are seventh, with nine points from five matches and only three goals conceded. On Friday, 9 October, their owners said they are looking for a buyer. The Friedkin Group (TFG) announced it is exploring “new investment options” for the club, including the potential sale of a controlling interest, and has hired the investment bank Moelis & Company to run the process.
“The time is right”
TFG completed its takeover in December 2024, ending Farhad Moshiri’s time as owner. Its statement said that with the club on firmer ground, “the time is right to consider the next chapter for Everton”. “When TFG became custodians of Everton, the club faced significant financial uncertainty and challenges both on and off the pitch,” it said. The priority, it added, had been stability, investment and finishing the long-promised stadium. Everton moved into the Hill Dickinson Stadium for the 2025-26 season.
The group said it “will only entertain interest from parties who we strongly believe will be the right stewards to take the club forward”, that it will keep backing the club while the process runs, and that neither TFG nor Everton will comment further for now.
Moyes found out on Friday morning
David Moyes, back for a second spell as manager since January 2025, heard the news at the same time as everyone else. “I only found out this morning myself along with everybody else,” he said at his pre-match press conference. “We were all expecting them to be here for 20 to 30 years, however long it may be.”
He also suggested the summer had already given him a clue. “Maybe the way things worked out over the transfer window, I probably had seen through it a little bit before that,” Moyes said. Most of his sympathy went to the supporters: “I’m more disappointed for Evertonians who have to go through another period of: ‘who’s going to be the new owner?'”
What it might cost
There is no official asking price. Paul Joyce of The Times reported a figure of around £800m, a number that includes roughly £380m of debt, and Alan Myers, speaking on Sky Sports, put it at between £800m and £1bn. Dan Friedkin’s group also owns Roma, and Myers’ view is that the cost of getting Everton back to the top of English football is “probably too much for them”.
Evertonians have been here before. Moshiri’s agreed sale to 777 Partners collapsed in 2024, talks with John Textor came to nothing, and even TFG’s first attempt stalled before it got the deal done. In the 2023-24 season, while the 777 deal dragged on, the club were docked points twice for breaching the league’s spending rules. So I can see why the owners would sell now. The team is unbeaten, the new ground is open, and the club is presumably worth more than it was in 2024. That is a good moment for TFG. It is a rotten one for a manager who thought he had owners for the long haul.
Hull first
The players have a match to think about. Everton go to Hull City, eighth and a point behind them, on Sunday, 11 October (2pm UK time, 6.30pm IST), and Chelsea visit the Hill Dickinson Stadium on 17 October. “The players have been great so far and we’ll keep them focused on what we can do which is win the games,” Moyes said.